Date of birth:	07.04.1991
Instrument:	viola
Nationality:	French
Competition:	Concours Luxembourgeois pour Jeunes Solistes & European Competition for Young Soloists 2010
Prize:	1st Prize
Contact:	through the EMCY Office

In 2012 Léa finished her Bachelor degree with a 1st Prize unanimously at the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique de Paris in the class of Sabine Toutain. She is now doing an Erasmus exchange at the Haute Ecole de Musique de Geneve with Nobuko Imai as a master student.

She won 1st Prize unanimously with the congratulations of the jury in the CRR of Paris in 2008, 1st Prize 'as excellent' with congratulations unanimously and the 2010 SACEM Prize in the European Competition for Young Soloists in Luxembourg, 3rd Prize in Marschner International Competition in Germany. In 2010 and she was also awarded by Yamaha Music Foundation of Europe. In 2007 she won 2nd Prize in the National Youth Viola Competition and in 2006 2nd Prize in the UFAM Competition.

Her interest for chamber music lead her to play in the 'Norwegian Youth Chamber Music Festival' (Norway), Festival Off 'Les Vacances de Mr Haydn', 'La musique des siècle', 'Les nuits du mont Rome', 'Salon musical Michelin', 'Le Printemps d’Euterpe', 'Musique en Monument', 'Piano Campus', 'Les musicales de Grillon', the association 'connaissance des jeunes interpretes' (all in France) etc. Léa was selected to participate in prestigious events such as 'Aurora Chamber Music Festival' (Sweden), the ‘Mit Musik – Miteinander’ at the Kronberg Academy (Germany), the 'IMS Prussia Cove' (UK) or 'Encuentro de Santander' (Spain), which also lead her to perform in recital. In 2011 she was invited to play at the 'Festival de Pâques de Deauville' (France), 'Grieg in Bergen' (Norway), 'Stars of Tomorrow Tour' arranged by EMCY and as a soloist with the Norwegian Youth Chamber Orchestra. Her chamber music partners Midori, Lars Anders Tomter, Torleif Theden, Svetlin Roussev, Marco Rizzi, Claudio Bohorquez, Yura Lee, Yan Levionnois to name but a few. In the concert season she will perform a recital in 'Paris Jeunes Talents'. Furthermore, she has been invited by Renaud Capuçon to play with Gauthier Capuçon, Gerard Caussé, Daniel Müller Schott, amongst others at the 'Festival de Pâques' á Aix de Provence as a 'New Generation' - musician.

She was accepted at the Academy of the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France for 2010/2011, which enables her to play under Lawrence Foster, Manfred Honeck and Xian Zhang. She already appeared with the International Institute of Attergau Orchestra under Jordi Savall at the Salzburg Festival in 2008, Ensemble of Young Virtuosi with Roussev Svetlin, Orchestre du Conservatoire de Paris under Yutaka Sado and Jean Deroyer, the Orquesta Sinfonica de Santander under Peter Csaba and Zoltan Kocsis. She has performed in venues such as Salle Pleyel, Cité de la Musique, Radio France, the Festspielhaus in Salzburg (Austria) etc.

Léa has participated in master classes with Lawrence Power, Nobuko Imai, Lars Anders Tomter, Jean Sulem, Veronika Hagen, Tatjana Mazurenko, Diemut Poppen, Garth Knox and master classes in chamber music with Vienna Artis Quartet, Hatto Beyerle, Lyda Chen-Arguerich, Bruno Pasquier, Peter Cropper, Stephan Picard, Richard Young and Marc Coppey. She is also very interested in contemporary music, worked and performed with violist Christopher Desjardin and the French composer Philippe Hersant and Robert Pascal. Lea has also performed a piece of a Graziani Finzi Quintet in 2010.

She currently plays french viola by N. A. Chappuy made around 1780 in Paris.

Visit Léa also on myspace.

Repertoire

Solo

J. S. Bach, Partita No. 2 for violin
J. S. Bach, Sonata No. 1 for violin
J. S. Bach, Suites No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3
G. Knox, Fuga libre
P. Hersant, Pavane for Solo Viola
P. Hindemith, Sonata (Op. 25, No. 1)
M. Reger, Suite No. 2 in D Major for Solo Viola
H. Vieuxtemps, Capriccio

With piano

J. Brahms, Sonata No. 1 in F minor
J. Brahms, Sonata No. 2 in E flat Major (Op. 120)
R. Clarke, Sonata
G. Enescu, Concert Piece
M. Glinka, Sonata
P. Hindemith, Sonata (Op. 11, No. 4)
F. Schubert, Sonata in A minor for Arpeggione and Piano (D821)
R. Schumann, Adagio and Allegro (Op. 70)
R. Schumann, Sonata (Op. 113)
D. Shostakovich, Sonata (Op. 147)
H. Vieuxtemps, Élégie

Chamber music

L. van Beethoven, Duett mit zwei obligaten Augengläsern
L. van Beethoven, String Quartet (Op. 18, No. 6)
L. van Beethoven, String Trio (Op. 9, No. 3)
J. Brahms, Trio (Op. 114)
M. Bruch, Eight Pieces for Trio (Op. 83)
C. Debussy, Trio No. 2 for flute, viola and harp
A. Dvorak, American String Quartet (Op. 96)
P. Hindemith, Duo (for cello and viola)
G. Kancheli, Piano Quartet 'In listesso tempo'
W. Lutoslawski, Bucolics Duet for cello and viola
W. A. Mozart, Duo No. 1 for violin and viola (transcription for cello and viola)
W. A. Mozart, Flute Quartet No. 1 in D Major (K. 285)
F. Mendelssohn, String Quartet (Op. 13)
S. Prokofiev, Overture on Hebrew Themes (Op. 34)
R. Schumann, Piano Quartet in E flat Major (Op. 47)
R. Schumann, Piano Quintet in E flat Major (Op. 44)
D. Shostakovich, Piano Quintet (Op. 57)
D. Shostakovich, String Quartet No. 8 (Op. 110)

With orchestra

B. Bartok, Viola Concerto
H. Berlioz, Harold in Italy (Op. 16)
M. Bruch, Romance
G. F. Handel, Concerto in B minor
P. Hindemith, 'Schwanendreher'
F. Hoffmeister, Concerto in D Major
J. N. Hummel, Fantasia
B. Martinu, Rhapsody Concerto
W. A. Mozart, Sinfonia Concertante (with violin)
W. Walton, Concerto
C. M. von Weber, Andante and Rondo

If you are interested in working with Léa, please get in touch with the EMCY Office.